Jerry_B

I bought another wiring kit from John (this time for a Pbass project). He very kindly sent it along in the post within hours of my order - how's that for service!

My T-40's about 10lb, if not a bit more. I actually prefer heavier basses to lighter ones - the latter tend to make me stoop a bit.

I like the matt black look One thing that's better at cleaning hardware than coke is a bath of vinegar with bicarb of soda added to it. It'll fizz up, then calm down after a while, mind you. Leave the hardware in that for 5-8 hours, then clean it all off with an old toothbrush.

Peavey T-40s have pretty chunky necks, which is one of the things I like about them. Not especially wide in terms of profile, but wide across the fingerboard (and nowe everything I type sounds like double entendres...).

Having tried various brands, I've settled on LaBellas ('Deep Talkin Bass').

Here's a Maya fretless I bought here from Rapscallion earlier this week. I swapped out the tort scrathplate for a black one and gave the whole bass an overhaul today on my day off All it's waiting for now is a wiring kit from KiOgon and it'll be done.

Various spares for the T-40 come up for sale on [url="http://www.belongingsbroker.com/category/peavey-t-parts"]this website[/url] once in a while...

[quote name='FlatEric' post='1326841' date='Aug 4 2011, 12:58 PM']Hi.

In reply.

This is what Chip actually said.
"Cutting the coil-tap red wire allows much more desirable treble overtones, so I'd not use the coil tap"

Effectively, the single coil/humbucker sound that we are used to would be transformed into a
"brighter" humbucker.

I do like the single coil sound as well, so my "Toddification" should allow both.[/quote]

So I guess that 'cutting' could involve the wire being unsoldered from one point?

[quote]Chip also said that the controls confused a lot of players when they first picked u a "T".

I can understand what he said but in reality, two minutes of fiddling around and it becomes clear what
is going on.
The only thing that a lot of owners miss, is the fact that in "Single Coil" Bridge only, the Phase switch
becomes a "Coil Select", so with the switch pushed back, the coil nearer the neck becomes active and the
other one is cut. Try it, you'll see what I mean.[/quote]

This is the control setting I tend to prefer in terms of overall tone.

That way madness lies But even then,the Yamaha is a great piece of kit!

I have a fretless Jazz, which is my main working bass. I'd also like a fretless acoustic bass, at some point!

+1 for the Yammy. Well-made and with a great sound - should keep him happy for years!

Nice!

Eric, can you explain the bit where it says [i]As Chip Todd advocates cutting the red wire, to let the pick-ups
show their true light as a Humbucker, I shall include this feature[/i]? How does that work?

Argh! Shame I can't afford one (the cheapest I've seen is 600 quid). Would be very interesting to put the unlined fretless neck from my Jazz on it

Sounds like the backing track is filling out the tone a bit.

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=144627"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=144627[/url]

[quote name='analogrowl' post='1319577' date='Jul 28 2011, 06:01 PM']Yeah, love big black too .

Never saw and tried a Peavey bass. Most gear distributed here are combo, or cab but not many bass.
I had an entry combo Peavey and wasn't that bad but i'm curious about their bass now.
Would it works nice in BEAD tuning ?[/quote]

They occasionally go on sale here. I think there may be a black one in the 'For Sale' section at the moment, in fact. They should be fine with BEAD.

[quote name='Adrenochrome' post='1319405' date='Jul 28 2011, 03:20 PM']I see you mentioned Steve Albini - I'm a fan of Big Black myself.[/quote]

Same here. If an agressive sound is what's needed - maybe along the lines of Big Black - then a Peavey T-40 would be the way to go

My favourite Jazz player must be Klaus Flouride, from the Dead Kennedys. His tone [i]always[/i] cut through, whether recorded or live:



That or the bass player from Decima Victima (whose name escapes me right now):



I mention this as IIRC such ideas cropped up in another thread about whether jazzes were 'punk' enough in terms of presence, compared to Pbasses.

Westone Spectrum DX. I have one of these. Sounds amazing, brilliant neck, amazing chunky pickup, looks good - but a silly little design flaw means it has neck dive. After playing one for 20+ years it royally screwed with my left shoulder Such a shame, as all in all it's just a brilliant bass.

+1 to what Eric says. These are great basses - always have been and always will be.

Every bass I have is played slightly lower than my hip. This has alway sbeen the case, and it applies to fretted or fretless basses. Anything higher than that makes it feel as if the bass is stuck under my armpit or digging into my ribs

I'm thinking of bunging a Mighty Mite unlined neck onto a LTD Vintage-204 I have. That said, doing all of the drilling doesn't fill me with hope

I think you'll only find out by experimentation. There was a recent thread about such things. You can get a nice variety of tones out of a jazz, and EQing will also help alot. I also think that pickups come into it quite alot too, but that may just be my own take on things. Normally I think Jazzes are a bit too subtle compared to a Precsion, but that doesn't mean you can't tweak them in one way or another to give them just as much presence. You just won't get exactly the same sort of tonal quality as a Precision.

The P/J route may also be one to try - it's one I find myself favouring nowadays, as it give you an element of the best of both worlds.

After alot of trying and testing (not a cheap experiment!), I've found that lower guage LaBellas do the job for me. They don't go dead as quickly as alot of others (Status, for example) too.

414s are brilliant basses, both in terms of tone and build quality. My own criticsm of them is that you have no option to adjust the blend between the neck and bridge pups. The selector switch is nice, but IMHO it'd be nicer to to be able dial in seperate amounts of volume.